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NO. 293 报告人：周晔馨

——The Development of Other-regarding Preferences in Adulthood: An Artefactual Field Experiment based on Household Survey

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题 目：The Development of Other-regarding Preferences in Adulthood: An Artefactual Field Experiment based on Household Survey

报告人：周晔馨 副教授 北京师范大学经济与资源管理研究院主持人：宋华盛 教授 浙江大学经济学院

时 间：2018年4月20日（周五） 14:30—16:00

地 点：浙江大学玉泉校区经济学院418室

Abstract

Most existing literatures concentrated on other-regarding preferences adopt standard experimental methods on university students, but there is a lack of studies covering subjects across broader age spectrum and social identities. An individual’s preferences, especially other-regarding preferences may develop throughout his or her life. We designed and conducted an artefactual field experiment based on “China Genuine Progress indicator Survey(CGPiS)”, a random sampled household survey. The experiment involved 320 participants from Beijing and Chengdu with age from 17 to 70. Via four binary-choice dictator games, we investigated the development and gender difference of other-regarding preferences. The result shows: people become more egoistic and less egalitarian as they age, and altruism reaches its top during age 41-50, declines during 51-60, and then rises after retirement age. Meanwhile, a vast gender difference was found during the age of 31-40 and 51-60, when egoism and egalitarianism in man and woman present opposite pictures. Education promotes the transformation of egoism into egalitarianism significantly. We also attempt to explain the development of other-regarding preference and it’s gender difference from the perspective of family-life-cycle.